So cross, my poor dried up pots….

We paid a neighbour’s daughter quite a lot to come and water my several pots of annuals and replenish 3 birdbaths, while we were away for 9 days.

I’ve come back to find that the pots been allowed to get so dry, the compost has shrunk from the sides of the pot, so that when I water now, it just pours out of the bottom.

I suppose I should have told her to count to 20 while watering, and not just give them a trickle, but we had her elder sister doing it perfectly well in previous years.

I shall now have to water little and often, just in the middle, and prune back much of what is now dead and dried up. 🤬